This is quite interesting. What is Thunderbird? Is that your internet provider? Or just an email provider? For instance, I get my internet service through Comcast, so I can have a Comcast email account but I actually use Gmail for my email which is a web based service. You can't get a comcast email account unless you have comcast internet service. So I'm wondering if it's the same thing with Thunderbird or if anyone can get a Thunderbird email account. I've noticed it has been mentioned several times recently. Hopefully this isn't considered off topic but I'm interested in anything that is more compliant with Legacy usage and this seems to fit the bill.
Thanks, Kathy On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Wendy Howard <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tony, > > I've done this very thing today! :-) > > I use Thunderbird too - one of the requirements I had at the time of > switching to it was that I wanted to be able to save individual emails > as discrete files, and TB lets you do this. It's as simple as typing > <Ctrl><S>, navigating to where I want the file stored, giving it a name, > and clicking on Save. > > For my genealogy, I keep a folder called Correspondence, which is in the > same place as similar files for Documents, Photos, etc. I give the > files a name along the lines of "<date>, email from <name>". > > In Legacy, I have a Master Source called "Private Correspondence", which > I use in this situation. In the detail I type "email from <name> > <date>". Because I'm referencing the email, I know that there's a copy > saved in the Correspondence file. > > I don't attach the file to the Legacy data. It's there in my folders if > I want to see the exact text. Or, if there's something in the email I > want to include in the source, I can put it in the Text/Comments tab of > the Source Detail and tick the box to include it in reports. > > Hope this helps. :-) > > Kind Regards, > Wendy > > -----Original Message----- > *Subject:* [LegacyUG] Sourcing e-mail text > *Sent:* Fri, 29 Oct 2010 10:28:48 +1100 > *From:* Tony Rolfe <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > > >> Greetings all >> >> I know how to create a source citation for an e-mail, but am at a loss >> as to the best way to reference the actual e-mail and it's attachments. >> It seems that there would be three possibilities: >> >> 1. to reference the actual e-mail file as a multi-media item in the >> source detail. This would probably be best, but I don't know physically >> how to get at the e-mail file (using Thunderbird, but the same would >> apply to any other client) >> >> 2. To copy the text from the e-mail and save it as a secondary file >> (plain or formatted text) and reference that, plus any attachments as >> multi-media files >> >> 3. To copy the text and paste it into the text part of the source >> detail and reference attachments as multi-media files. >> >> Is there an option 4? How do other folk do this? >> >> Thanks >> >> Tony > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > -- Kathy Meyer "To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things you have never before done." --Richard G. Scott, "Finding the Way Back," Ensign, May 1990, 74 Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~ Albert Einstein Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
